Becky Tucker's Inferno...

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Crypt, de Becky Tucker (2024)
Material: glazed stoneware, faux suede dyed with indigo / Dimensions: 97 x 44 x 22 cm

 

Inspired by Inferno, the epic poem from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, English artist Becky Tucker (1993) presents Crypt at Unit Gallery in London. It is a glazed ceramic sculpture that has both a human and animal shape. The coldness of the material contrasts with the flames that seem to consume this meta-human who also mixes elements of the past and the future. 
The title of the piece, Crypt, could be due to the “crypt” that the author of the poem refers to, the place where heretics were burned to death (sixth circle of Hell). Although we have allowed ourselves to go a little bit further and think of Crypt in the cryptic sense of a work of contemporary art or perhaps as related to cryptocurrency, due to how intangible and indefinite this form of money can be for many. All definitions can be possible in this sculpture by the young and talented Tucker. The question about the title was sent as a query via Instagram to the art gallery, but until now we have not received a response. 
Inferno is the group exhibition currently on display, as we said, at the Unit Gallery and brings together fifteen artists who reinterpreted the nine circles of Hell in different media. As a result, the visitor lives a visceral experience in which contemporary art revives this 14th century poem.

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